This Week In The Library: November 28 - December 2

The days are getting shorter, but there's still a lot of activity in the Sherwood library.  Here's what classes did this week!

Kindergarten/2nd/3rd & Mr. Stillwaugh's Class: We heard "Mummy Cat" by Marcus Ewert.  This was on of our Washington Children's Choice books.  2nd & 3rd grade got to try their hand at Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing.  LINK FOR HIEROGLYPHIC WEBSITE, HANDOUTS.  Kindergartners drew mummy cats and pharaoh treasure.  Vocabulary: pyramid, pharaoh, serene, century.  <Video of conversation w/ author & illustrator>

Grade 1: We listened to "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" by Simms Taback.  We created a chart of the important elements in the story: main character, events, ending.  Next week we'll compare/contrast with a similar book from our Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award Poster.

Grade 4: We learned a little bit more about Melvil Dewey's system for classifying books.

Grade 5 (Alderson): We completed our opening lesson on Computational Thinking and how it is related to computer coding. Vocabulary: algorithm, abstraction, decompose, and pattern matching.

Grade 6 & 5 (Wildenhaus): We played "The Game With No Rules," finishing our lesson on Computational Thinking for coding. VIDEO  We learned about algorithms and finding the patterns in the game.  Vocabulary: algorithm, abstraction, decompose, and pattern matching.

Professional: Gathered books on astronomy for the Intensive Support class.  Attended the district library meeting at Beverly Elementary on Tuesday.  Our main topic was preparation for the new fine system "In Touch" that the district plans to roll out in January.  Met with the principal and district technology folks about the upcoming implementation of Chromebooks in January.  Helped various teachers with tech troubleshooting.  Prepared and cataloged many books that we obtained from the book fair for the library.  Completed some of the final book fair tasks.  Met with the assistant principal about her upcoming teacher evaluation observation in the library next week.